BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD AND COPING WITH INJUSTICE IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS

• Authors: Rovenská Denisa , Daduľáková Lenka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

According to the just world hypothesis, people want to and have to believe they live in a just world so that they can go about their daily lives with a sense of trust, hope, and confidence in their future (Lerner,1980). Justice can be seen as a key issue in intimate relationships. People want to be treated justly and consider justice to be one of the most important attributes of a good intimate relationship. Social justice research has shown that people respond with negative attitudes and behaviors when they perceive unjust treatment or situations. However, belief in a just world is associated with a positive coping style (Dalbert & Filke, 2007). The aim of this contribution is to examine the level of the belief in a just world (personal and general), find out which strategy is most used when people cope with injustice in intimate relationships, and analyze the relation between the belief in a just world and particular coping strategies. The results showed no significant relationship between the belief in a just world and coping strategies. The authors ´s findings are inconsistent with the Montada and Lerner study (1998), in which the belief in a just world was associated with constructive coping strategies.

Keywords

EN

JUSTICE; BELIEF; INJUSTICE; RELATIONSHIPS

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Social Sciences
• Journal: Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 39 – 49

Contributors

author

Rovenská Denisa

• Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Public Administration, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovak Republic

author

Daduľáková Lenka